You are not. I have a VCR set up and I am glad to have it.
Nope, I have a combo VCR/DVD player. I have some old TV episodes (mostly MST3K) that I like to watch. And even if I didn’t use the VCR part, it’s a really nice machine.
I have a TV/VCR combo unit still in the bedroom. Almost never use the VCR though. We used to record things on it from time to time but these days anything we would have recorded can just be watched On Demand or via some other means.
I used to own a bunch of movies and kid’s stuff on VHS but we never used them. Put a big box of them on the curb and someone took them (probably to sell at a flea market for 75¢ each or something). But, again, lots of movies available streaming or I can rent a DVD for a buck or two if it’s not streaming. Owning the movies just took up space.
Yup. We watched an episode of Shark Tank over the weekend that we had recorded from the week before. I watched Seabiscuit on tape about a month ago.
I have a working VCR in my bedroom, and a collection of exercise tapes. It gets used every now and then. I also have a working laserdisc player in the bedroom, which never gets used. I don’t have a DVD player in the bedroom so all my exercise DVDs sit in their packages gathering dust.
Large collection of old kids movies. Will be using the VCR for the forseeable future.
Haven’t used it in a while, but “Hellzapoppin’” was only available on VHS when my wife got it for me, and we still have the tapes for the original unscrewed up Star Wars - Episodes 4 - 6. Why buy DVDs when I’d watch my tapes once in a blue moon?
I have a VCR/DVD player set up, and remarkably, my father still has three of them because he tapes shows to watch them without commercials. Yes, I went as far as to give him a Comcat gift card with enough money to sponsor the DVR for a year but he won’t make the switch.
I have a couple of big baskets of VHS movies. I did see one of those donation bins that mentioned taking discs and tapes so I may need to go through them and reduce.
I have a shelf of various VCRs above my desk as I type this.
S-VHS, Beta SP, multi-format PAL & SECAM VHS and 3/4" UMatic.
And a Laserdisc player and a turntable.
My DVD/VCR combo died about 2 months ago and I replaced it with just a DVD player and pitched all my VHS tapes. I know I will regret dumping those tapes. Most of them were exercise tapes which I used on a fairly regular basis. I still have the VHS rewind machine that I bought at Walgreen’s for $9.95…
no 8mm?
Oddly enough for me, it wasn’t the DVR that killed my VCR, but rather switching to high def.
I do have my DVD/VCR combo hooked up to my HDTV, but I’m doubtful how much I’ll bother with it. The only tapes I’d watch are transfers of the playoff/Superbowl Giants games from 2007 and 2011, which I made in lovingly edited 90-minute versions, removing commercials, ref calls, “bad drives” where the other team looks good, etc…
These transfers are a joy to watch for me, or at least they were before I upgraded to high def two months ago. (Finally!) Now, a mere two months in, I’m already so spoiled by high def that I don’t know if I could stomach watching VCR tapes. I certainly can’t imagine taping new ones.
Just Hi8 and D8 camcorders. Same with DV and HD-DV.
I still use a VCR to record TV shows. I have hundreds of VHS tapes of various shows and movies that I have recorded since the 1980s. I just record over old taped shows that either don’t appeal to me any more, or that I have since bought the DVD.
I don’t think that they actually make VHS tapes any more. Is that right?
I’ve got one—it’s currently enjoying a quiet semi-retirement, with the occasional call up for transferring to or from my VHS stockpile. Most recently, it saw service with my video review series, when I needed some footage made deliberately cruddy-looking. (It went from camcorder—computer, with editing and some special effects and visual filters added—DVD-RW—DVD-to-VCR (on the “super long play” recording setting)—VCR-to-DVD Recorder—DVD—Computer, and final editing.
The same thing could probably have been done with an appropriate “VHS style” filter, true, but I wanted the authentic touch. …and besides, have you priced those things lately? I’m not made of money—leave me alone!
I still have a VCR set up, but I can’t remember the last time I played anything in it or recorded anything with it.
The DVD player in my room is connected to the input of a 20-year-old (mono!) VCR.
I still have a few VCRs because I have a lot of old tapes from the 90s and you can buy VHS movietapes hella cheap now (like 25 cents at the thrift store)
All of you with VCRs quickly go check to see if you have a copy of Big with the alternate ending!
Yes I have one and used it three weeks ago on my old CRT. It was “Dark Star”. I believe it`s John Carpenters directorial debut. Highly recommended.
Dark Star: Dark Star (film) - Wikipedia